What is?

Anamnesis (Ancient Greek: ἀνάμνησις "recollection, reminiscence", literally "loss of
forgetfulness") is a term used in medicine, philosophy, psychoanalysis and religion first
used by the Greek philosopher Plato to equate learning with remembering.

Command Line

Usage: anamnesis [options]

Options:

--version show program's version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--start starts anamnesis daemon
--stop stops anamnesis daemon
--restart restarts anamnesis daemon
-b, --browser opens anamnesis browser with clipboard history
--cleanup optimize database and limit the number of elements
-l N, --list=N prints the clipboard history last N values
--filter=KEYWORDS use keywords to filter the clips to be listed
-a CLIP, --add=CLIP adds a value to the clipboard
--remove=ID_TO_REMOVE removes the clipboard element with the given id
--brief print only a brief version of long clipboard elements

Examples:

Starts the graphic user interface:

anamnesis --browser

Starts the anamnesis daemon:

anamnesis --start

Stops the anamnesis daemon:

anamnesis --stop

List the last 20 clipboard items:

anamnesis --list=20

List the last 5 items in the clipboard the has the keywords 'my' and 'search':

anamnesis --list=5 --filter="my search"

Adds a clipboard item (same as copying to the clipboard if the daemon is running):